1. Ghostbusters

If Ghostbusters is one of the decade’s best comedies (and it is), then it only makes sense that it features one of its best montages. And this mid-movie sequence has everything: a chart-topping, earworm of a theme song, a meteoric rise to fame and fortune and the resulting media frenzy, Bill Murray – and, of course, Dan Aykroyd’s no-way-that’s-PG paranormal “encounter.” Taking the Ghostbusters from a laughing stock to New York’s newest heroes in under three minutes, it’s the perfect example of how, thanks to the ‘80s movie montage, anything’s possible. Even celebrity ghost hunters.